Into the Octo-verse

Get the inside scoop on energy, technology, and all things Octopus.

What drives wholesale energy prices?

The wholesale cost of energy is a big chunk of your bill – and to understand why it varies, it's helpful to know a bit about how the energy market works.

Octopus brought renewable energy to the party at Timber Festival

This Summer, we teamed up with Timber Festival to supercharge people’s phones with clean green renewable energy in the heart of the National Forest.

A Fan Club turbine in your back yard? It's more fun than you think

We promise there's a super important reason our turbines have been abseiled down, used to play sky-high rugby, and turned into massive light installations. Find out why in our latest blog.

Introducing FleetCharge: the community charging solution for EV fleets

Simple EV charging for business fleets, 5 minutes from home. Get paid to loan your parking spot to an EV driver in need! We're knocking down barriers to electric transport for businesses an innovative, 100% renewable community charging solution for fleets.

Spotlight on...Suraj, back-end developer and champion for inclusion

Meet Suraj: Kraken back-end developer and champion for tech diversity in our latest Spotlight.

We're bringing a new kind of pulpo to Spain

Octopus Energy is coming to Spain! We've acquired Valencia-based green energy disruptor Umeme to launch Octopus Energy Spain.

Cheaper, greener energy

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Introducing Power Hour: An hour of free smart green electricity

Power Hour – one hour of free green electricity every month between August 2021 and December 2022 for customers with connected smart meters. The Power Hour will change each month – it will be one of the cheapest, greenest daylight hours for the whole month, as forecast by our boffins.

We’ll send everyone who’s signed up an email within 24 hours of the Power Hour.

Our smart meter vans are going electric

Retweet your favourite pick from our finalists on Twitter: the two most popular will each be permanently inked on one of our electric smart meter vans. Read on for full competition info and more on our soon-to-be fully-electric van fleet.

Gas boilers v. Heat pumps

The speed of technological change can catch people by surprise.

The state of wholesale energy

We're committed to fair prices that truly reflect the cost of the energy we supply you. In this blog post, we'll give insight into what's going on in the global wholesale energy market, to help you better understand trends in UK tariff prices.

Intelligent Octopus Go: Customer questions answered

Intelligent Octopus Go is a beta smart tariff just for EV drivers. In this blog we're answer some intelligent Octopus Go customer FAQs!

We’re trying to make energy (and the world) better for everyone.

Positive action Octopus Energy has taken since its launch to make energy (and the world) fairer, greener, and more equitable.

Arsenal are Electric!

Thanks to our long-term partnership with Arsenal, Gooners now have the opportunity to charge their electric vehicles (EVs) at Emirates Stadium during match days!

Green heating 101 with our heat pump boffin Peter

Yet to be electrified and unable to reap the benefits of cleaner, greener electricity, heating accounts for 14% of the UKs emissions. In this blog, I talk to Peter Konowalczyk about the solution we've all been waiting for... heat pumps.

Powered by Octopus

Let's meet some of the wonderful businesses driving for a low-carbon future, and putting our clean, green electrons to good use in the process.

We've made smart meter installations something to look forward to

We’re celebrating a little milestone... Octopus Energy Services, our dedicated smart hardware engineers, have just installed their 100,000th smart meter! Find out about what we've been doing to make sure our installations are as fun and as easy as they can be.

Want to ditch gas for good? Here’s how we can help

As people move away from burning gas to heat our homes and our water, we thought we’d put together a blog explaining how we can help remove your gas meter and cap your supply safely.

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